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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 5

MORE OUTRAGES

NAZIS BLOW UP SYNAGOGUE “AS SACRED DUTY” LABOUR FRONT ROBBERIES. DR GOEBBELS'S CYNICAL VAPOURING. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, November 20. The wholesale arrests during Jhe pogrom have caused confusion in Germany. and some of the victims are temporarily lost. Urgent orders for the release of Herr Strauss, a Jewish aeroplane engine designer, are ineffective because it cannot be discovered where he is imprisoned. A few Jews have been released from concentration camps, some because they were seriously ill and others because they were wounded in the Great War or were decorated during the war. Others are cases of doctors and business men whose firms are Jn process of being aryanised. The dynamiting of the synagogue at Gunzhausen signalised Dr von Rath’s funeral on Friday. The mayor, Herr Appier, a Nazi leader, .declared that it was a sacred duty to remove the Star of David from the town. He read the ; eport of the opening of the synagogue in 1883, and concluded: "Now this dismal chapter is ended.” A dull report then resounded and the towers of the synagogue collapsed. The Munich correspondent of "The Times” says that Nazi storm troopers visited the houses of all Jews with property at Nuremberg and took them to the Labour Front headquarters where they were ordered to sign a document making over 90 per cent of their property to the Labour Front, retaining 10 per cent for themselves. Most of them consented, though some only after several hours’ detention. Jews were also told that they must quit Nuremburg after next March. The Minister of Propaganda, Dr Goebbels, opening the Sudetenland election campaign at Reichenberg, declared that the Nazis avoided war by threatening war. He added that Nazism was Germany’s exclusive and inexportable' patent. Since it was needed to strengthen Germany, it must not be allowed to strengthen Britain and France. It was not desirable to export anti-Semitism, inasmuch as Germany, which desired to export Jews, wanted a world so friendly to it that it would absorb Ml German Jews. NAZI ANGER. FEELING AGAINST BRITAIN. AND U.S.A, m ' LONDON, November 19. Feeling against the'United States is high in Germany, though perhaps not so high as that against Britain. The Press resents Lord Zetland’s speech, which is described as impudent He should mind his own business, it says. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” states that observers are inclined to believe that the German anti-British attitude is symptomatic of a permanent change in the German foreign policy, which was based on long-term friendship with Britain. Events since the Munich agreement, it is believed, have tended to confirm Herr Hitler’s doubts about the practicability of this policy. The new disturbance in GermanAmerican relations was unfortunately timed for German commercial men. who had hoped for an agreement with the United States to compensate for (he disadvantages of the Anglo-Ame-rican agreement. TYRANNY DENOUNCED JEWISH EX-SERVICE MEN DEMONSTRATE. INCLUDING WEARERS OF IRON CROSS. LONDON, November 19. Ten German Jew ex-Service men. holders of the Iron Cross, accompanied a procession of standard-bearers of the British Jewish ex-Service Legion, and handed over to the custody of the solders Green synagogue a mediaeval scroll law salvaged from a demolished German synagogue. The authorities, fearing Nazi reprisals, asked camera men not to photograph the holders of the Iron Cross. Maurice Perlzweiz condemned German tyranny and declared: "Our brethren in Germany will not be bludgeoned into ransom. Self-re-specting statesmen will prevent that method of bringing foreign money to Germany.”